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Bear baiting

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the sport of baiting bears with dogs.

See also: Bear



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One reader wrote: "Most bear baiting today is done by professionals whose workhorses are ATVs and whose paying clients' only active participation in the 'hunt' is an unearned and anticlimactic kill.
Bear baiting, cock fighting, prize fights and other similar pursuits were the order of the day and crowds used to assemble, not to go to church, but to watch such events on Honley Moor.
Dog fighting soon took the place of the previously banned bull and bear baiting sports.
 
 
 
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